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I' M. H. MOSMAN, 0F WATERBURY,. CONNECTICUT.

1 Letters Patent No. 97,215, dated November 23, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUFFERS FOR INSIERTING- C'OILED WIRE AROUND THE EDG-ES OF LAMP-DEFLECTORS.

The Schedulerefen'ed to'in these Letters Patent and making p/art of the same.

To all whom it 'may concern cut, havel invented a new aud useful Device for Put.

ting Coiled Wire on or around the Edges of Lamp- ;Detlectors, and other articles; and I do hereby declare that thetollowing is a full, clear, and exact description' of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, forming part of \this specification, and in which Figure l represents a top view of a laInp-deliector, with the coiled wire arranged around its edge;

Figure 2, a side view of thev same, with said wire, in part, applied thereto;

Figure 3, a horizontal view of a buff or buler, as employed in putting the wire on the detlector; and

Figure 4, a horizontal sect-ion through said bulier.

.Similar letters of reference indicate corresliondingf parts.

Although applicable to putting coiled wire on or around the edges of various articles, it will suiice here to Qdescribe my invent-ion `as used for putting coiled wire on or around the edges of lamp-deflectors, to form an elastic support to the chimney.

IIeretofore, it has been customary to thus wire said detiectors by piercing theinwith small holes, closelyv arranged around theiredges, and holding and turning the detiector in or by the one hand, while the coiled wire, after having been carefully entered through a 4few of the holes, is repeatedly stroked or rubbed by the other hand, to make it worm or thread its way around the perforated edge of the detlectou This is a slow and tedious process, and the object of my invention is to substitute, for the hand, a mechanical device or contrivance, that will accomplish the putting on'of the wire in only a tithe of the time required by the old hand-process. To this end,

The invention consists in a peculiarly-constructed butf or buffer, hung on a mandrel that is made to rotate, so that it is only necessary to press, at opposite or distant points, the coiledwire, after it has been eutered through a few of the holes in the edge of the detlector, against said buer, by suitably holding and turning the delector for the purpose.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A represents a butt or butter, hung on a mandrel, B, that may be entered iu a lathe, and made. to revolve for the purpose of rotating the buffer.

'lhis b nft' or buffer A, after numerous expements with bodies made wholly of rubber, or wholly of cloth .or woven fabric, I tind it necessary to construct partly of rubber or rubber-cloth, and ,partly of cloth woven from cotton or other suitable fibrous materia-l or materials,`and to arrange such divided construction ot' it by alternate layers ot the rubber or rubber-cloth, and

woven cloth or fabric. Thus, in the accompanying' drawing, said buffer is represented as made up of a central disk of rubber, of, and alternate layers or disks ofrubber-cloth, b, and cloth, c, woven from cotton or other suitable iibrous material, in a succession of adjacent thicknesses.

The coiled wire C having been entered through a few of the holes madeiu the edge of the deiector D, the latter, with the wire thus started in it, is held up by the hand against the rapidly-revolving buffer, tirstly, bringing' the wire, at its entered end or portion, against the butter, and then turning the deflector halt' round, to bring the wire, run into it by such previous contact with the buifer, against the latter, ou the opposite side of th deiector, which tinishes the operation; or, at least, two such touches of the wire against the buffer will generally suttice to cause' the latter to work or worin the wire all around the deector.

In this way 'in-.1y a large number of defle'ctors be wired iu the same time that. a very few only could be under the old or hand-process.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The hun" or buer A, when constructed substantially as described, for operation, essentially as yand for the purpose or purposes herein set forth. r

Witnesses: M. H. MOSMAN.-

HENRY I. BOUGHTON, GEORGE L. FIELDS. 

